Nail Jack Tools 11NJ Nail Puller, 11-Inch

by Nail Jack Tools

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

The Nail Jack's award winning steel pliers like design revolutionizes nail/staple pulling. There are at least three major categories of "fasteners" that at some point need to be extracted from material that you need to recover and reuse: nails, brads and staples. To extract them, you need leverage and gripping power, along with the ability to dig.The Nail Jack’s exclusive patent pending "Hammer Tap" allows you to drive the points of the Nail Jack nail puller into the wood, allowing extraction. The heads of nails and brads are typically driven at or slightly below the surface of the fastened work piece so the fasteners are less visible. The Nail Jack nail puller even pulls brads from the back of the material with ease. If you have to dig, then dig, grip and pull. We all know that the claw of a hammer or the fixed "V" opening of a cat’s paw does not grip and it cannot hope to grab fasteners with small heads such as finish nails and brads. The question that comes to mind time and time again is, Why waste a perfectly good piece of lumber or baseboard due to a few nails? Why not be able to quickly and efficiently remove a fastener and reuse the wood? With our Nail Jack nail puller, these procedures are done with dramatic efficiency, with a hand actuated tool and no special training. By being low tech and human powered, we have filled the gap where there was formerly no tool that could dig, grab and pull the entire range of fasteners from materials. Our tools require no compressors or batteries, and no special training or expertise. They can be carried anyplace in a tool belt. Many times the only way to remove brads and reuse beautiful custom installed materials like baseboard and wainscoting is to pull the brads out through the back of the material.

Product Description

These are the first hand tools ever designed solely for the purpose of digging, gripping and extracting fasteners such as nails, staples or brads. Whether you need to dig big nails out or carefully remove headless brads from the front or the back of your material, the 11" Nail Jack and 8-1/2" Hunter brand nail pullers will do the job quickly, effectively and efficiently.

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 12 x 4 x 3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B001M8RYFS
• California residents: Click here for Proposition 65 warning.
• Item model number: 11nj
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (26 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #11,104 in Home Improvement (See Top 100 in Home Improvement)
  • #9 in Home Improvement > Power & Hand Tools > Hand Tools > Nail Pullers

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good idea but not for Reclaimed Lumber, January 15, 2010

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J. Kaliski - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Nail Jack Tools 11NJ Nail Puller, 11-Inch (Tools & Home Improvement)

The nail jail is an interesting, well built tool. I believe it may work well on new wood.

In business we work with reclaimed lumber frequently for the past several years. Most of our materials are 100+ years old from old barns. Sometimes Douglas Fir and pine but more often with northern hardwoods such as red and white oak and hard maple. In general reclaimed lumber gets very, very hard and pulling nails from it is a difficult, time consuming, frustrating job. We have tried every tool we can think of -- cat's paws, nail pullers, chisels, etc. All are slow, labor intensive and many scare the wood.

We have tried the 11-inch nail jack on a variety of reclaimed materials. On the hardest material such as white oak it was a failure both in thick stock (4" and greater) as well as thin stock (<= 1"). We tried in older square iron nails and newer steel ones. We also tried both nails 100% buried as well as partially expose. After lots of trying on the hardest materials we gave up. We damaged the front pincher a little as well. To be fair, we have not found any other hand tool that works better. It is a hard job. BTW, the best technique we have found is a pneumatic punch for thin stock and the old style nail puller for the timbers.

We also tried the nail jack on softer material: reclaimed doug fir, reclaimed redwood, and reclaimed hemlock.
The process went slightly better but not significantly. It was still slow, labor intensive and frequently the nail would still break.

If you are de-nailing older reclaimed lumber, I would keep looking for something else.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars What a great tool. What took them so long, October 3, 2009

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Allen "ALP" (Utah) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Nail Jack Tools 11NJ Nail Puller, 11-Inch (Tools & Home Improvement)

This is a very well designed tool. Works very well and is far better than anything out there. Fast shipping. A little pricey but worth every penny. A great deal of design attention has gone into this tool and as such is a real time saver. Does far less surface damage than a pry bar (etc).

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A great nail puller!, September 22, 2009

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Reyhook (Virginia) - See all my reviews

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This tool was just the thing to pull nail from deck planks in order to flip them. Easily grips nails at plank surface. Saved alot of time.